The Most Difficult Professional Decision I Have Made in the Last Five Years

“You haven't done so well with passing classes and that’s an issue, you have a decision to make, you can either stay at lakewood and not graduate on time, or you can move to an alternative school to make up the credits you need.” The words that no high school student want to hear. As a high school student, school was not my best interest. Yes, i can say that i was interested and determined to get done with my high school year and go to college and continue to persuade my dream in either becoming a cosmetologist or become in the culinary fields, but that didn’t go as planned. As the days go by everything becomes a challenge, School work gets harder along with the classes, also understanding everything that you learn even gets harder. Most people

Most decisions are made with analysis, but some are judgment calls not susceptible to analysis due to time or information constraints. Please write about a judgment call you’ve made recently that couldn’t be analyzed. It can be a big or small one, but should focus on a business issue. What was the situation, the alternatives you considered and evaluated, and your decision making process? Be sure to explain why you chose the alternative you did relative to others considered.

At our first meeting, I distributed calendars for the upcoming year and asked them to set personal goals to be incorporated into our goals as a team, allowing each officer to focus on their strengths. For example, the vice president decided to focus on maintaining our website, and the secretary helped me implement a point system to keep track of member activity. Despite this success, I later ran into trouble due to my personal failure to be assertive; I allowed the former president to sign the team up for future competitions without voicing my concerns to further involve our sponsor. Fortunately, I was able fix this mistake by taking responsibility for my mistake and organizing parent volunteers to ease our sponsor’s responsibilities throughout the year. This was a stressful situation, but I did learn the importance of admitting when I am wrong and was inspired to be more assertive, remaining undaunted by the pressures of

5. What is the most difficult challenge you have faced to date in your job?

In what circumstances could your decision style have been opposite to the one you identified?

Please describe your most challenging academic or professional experience and your response to that experience. *

The result is that we feel valued and more likely to take ownership of the objectives and work more actively to achieve the desired outcomes. My personal work objectives based on agreed objectives are to: -support and supervise the team and ensure tasks are carried out to maintain high standards of service. -carry out induction and shadowing with new team

a decision I had to be critical about what was good and bad for myself. Even if

Create one personal life example and one career example in which you wrestle with personal challenges and an ethical dilemma (e.g., a client or research subject reveals compromising information about a friend or family member who also happens to be someone you know in a personal/social context).

3. How have my opinions of the profession changed and/or remained the same over the years?

Senior management did not appear to be very supportive or committed to this project. They did not provide vested leadership to guide and enable the project manager and his team to succeed. When problems were identified early on, resources were dispatched to the project but they served to be a bigger detriment than an aide to achieve the project objectives. Informing the senior management of problems at an early stage should render support and encouragement that will serve all the interests of the project team. However, this senior management team provided threats and intimidating management methods. Resources are commonly shared by a number of projects and distributing of critical resources will usually be made by senior/upper management. This did not appear to happen in this case.

In today's business it is in the best interest of companies to have project managers. Common sense isn't always easily accomplished. Anyone who's ever worked on a project in a technical setting knows this. Indeed, much of working with others consists of solving unexpected problems and learning from mistakes along the way. Knowing this and having the proper tools a project manager will be able to manage and complete the most intense project out there.

The authors were successful on this step by creating a valuable and diverse team that complimented each other, which was a necessity to ensure they had mixed points of views and opinions. Next, the team must create the approach they are going to take, and to be sure each team member has a clear understanding of the benefits for the future of everyone involved. This step was evident by the group meetings. Fourth, it is imperative for the team to demonstrate impeccable communication skills and the ability to influence others to comprehend the significance of the change (Kotter and Rathgeber 2006).

3. The most recent significant event in my field agency that are challenging my values and my decision to enter the program was my conversation with a case manager that I was shadowing. I was asking him several questions but one important question was what were the pros and cons of his job. Although

Most decisions are made with analysis, but some are judgment calls not susceptible to analysis due to time or information constraints. Please write about a judgment call you’ve made recently that couldn’t be analyzed. It can be a big or small one, but should focus on a business issue. What was the situation, the alternatives you considered and